When the shoguns took power in Japan, what did they do with the emperor?

They kept the emperor as a figurehead

The Church had great power over people during the middle Ages because

It decided who could achieve salvation.

How did medieval cathedrals help to educate an illiterate public?

They featured sculptures and stained glass that portrayed biblical stories

Why was the Cyrillic alphabet developed?

to translate the religious texts of Christianity for the Slavs

How did monks and nuns improve life during the Middle Ages?

They cared for the sick and poor.

What led to the split in the Christian Church in 1054?

Refusal of patriarch of Constantinople to recognize the pope’s authority

To become a government worker

students had to pass a difficult Confucian test

Vikings, who united the Slavs and formed a state called Kievan Rus

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History 10 Mid-Semester Test 2

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1
What symbolized the status of women in the Song dynasty?
The return of Confucianism
Foot-binding
The civil service exam
Empress Wu
2
When the shoguns took power in Japan, what did they do with the emperor?
They allowed the emperor to make many decisions
The killed the emperor
They kept the emperor as a figurehead
They banished the emperor from Japan
3
This was used to make the earliest printed book?
Rudder
Woodblock printing
Movable type printing
Coal
4
The Church had great power over people during the middle Ages because
It decided who could achieve salvation.
It provided them with education.
It protected them in times of warfare.
It controlled food production.
5
Monks and nuns served the community by
Remaining secluded and rarely seeing outsiders.
Pressuring feudal lords to provide social services.
Performing little manual labor
Providing social services.
6
What was the code of honor, loyalty, and discipline practiced by the samurai?
Shintoism
Bushido
Chivalry
Isolationism
7
To what member of the social class were the samuari loyal for life?
daimyo
peasant
merchant
emperor
8
How did medieval cathedrals help to educate an illiterate public?
They required Church members to learn and to read the Bible.
They held religious education classes.
They featured sculptures and stained glass that portrayed biblical stories
They supported tax-based public education.
9
Why was the Cyrillic alphabet developed?
to provide traders and merchants a way to record economic transactions
to translate the religious texts of Christianity for the Slavs
to enable historians to record the history of the Rus
to write the sacred text of the Slavic pagan religion
10
How did monks and nuns improve life during the Middle Ages?
They excommunicated criminals.
They cared for the sick and poor.
They gave land to the peasants.
They opposed the feudal system.
11
What led to the split in the Christian Church in 1054?
Refusal of patriarch of Constantinople to recognize the pope’s authority
The defeat of the Papal States by Otto the Great
The desire of Henry IV for a divorce from his wife
A pacifist group’s opposition to the Crusades
12
During the rule of Song dynasty, China enjoyed a period of cultural achievement and ____.
famine
economic uncertainty
prosperity
military unrest
13
Why did some religious people want to reform the Church during medieval times?
It had grown too powerful
It had grown corrupt.
It had grown weak.
It had grown too big.
14
The schism of 1054
increased the power of the pope.
created two distinct churches.
led to the beginning of Muslim invasions of the Byzantine Empire
ended the golden age of Byzantine art and architecture
15
To become a government worker
students had to make inventions
students had to pass a difficult Confucian test
students had to know Buddhism
Students had to be from noble families
16
Who were the Rus?
Slavs who were imprisoned by the Khazars
sisters who fought the Khazars to liberate Slavic tribes from Kievan Rus
three brothers from Constantinople who set up a trading post in Kiev
Vikings, who united the Slavs and formed a state called Kievan Rus

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